Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Pultenaea rosmarinifolia
Common name
Rosemary bush-pea
Family
Fabaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and heath. Coast and ranges north from Bawley Point.
Notes
Upright shrub, prostrate or to 1.8 m tall. Leaves with sharp tips. Stems hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6-4.5 cm long, 1.8-5.5 mm wide, convex in cross section with a deep central groove, tips blunt with a short stiff bristle, and somewhat curved down, margins curved to rolled down, both surfaces the same colour or the upper surface darker than the lower surface. Flowers pea shaped, with 5 petals, 2 joined together to form the keel. Standard petal 10-11 mm long, yellow to red with red markings. Wings yellow to red. Keel red to purple. Bracteoles boat-shaped to linear, inserted on the calyx tube. Flowers in dense clusters. Flowers most of the year. Pods densely to sparsely hairy, smooth.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Pultenaea~rosmarinifolia (accessed 2 February, 2021)
Description partly taken from: Kok, R.P.J. de & West, J.G., (2004) A revision of the genus Pultenaea (Fabaceae) 3. The eastern species with curved down leaves. Australian Systematic Botany 17(3): 314, Fig. 17 (map)
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